Here's what you can find in issue #61 of the Better Bioeconomy weekly newsletter:

BIO BUZZ:

💨 Solar Foods opened Factory 01 in Finland, claimed to be the world’s first factory growing food out of thin air

🇪🇺 Meatable conducted the first public tasting of cultivated meat in the EU

🥛 Nobell Foods rebranded as Alpine Bio and secured its 10th US patent

🤝 ProteinDistillery partnered with NETZSCH Group to improve the purification process of Prew:tein

🍺 Researchers at Nanyang Technological University developed a method to extract 80% of proteins from a beer production byproduct

✅ Kemin Industries received EU Novel Food authorization for microalgae-derived beta-glucan supporting gut health

⚡️And more buzzes

FIRST BITE:

💰 APAC-based founders, check out Better Bite Ventures’ First Bite initiative to support your startup journey

MACRO STUFF:

📝 Learnings from GFI APAC's webinar on recent cultivated meat regulatory progress in APAC

💸 Total investments in fermentation reached $4.1B, with $514.7M raised in 2023

🇺🇸 Study shows that Americans prefer conventional meat but cultivated meat isn’t far behind despite its limited availability

📈 The number of cultivated meat companies increased to 174 in 2023, up from 166 in 2022

BIO BUCKS:

🍔 Mosa Meat raised €40M to support the company's growth and expand its production

🌾 OlsAro raised €2.5M to expand its climate-smart crop breeding platform

SOCIAL FEAST:

🔥 A message to cell ag founders from a founder: “Embrace the scrappy mindset, drop the inflated ego, and go back to the foundation”

🧫 Cell culture media are glorified sports drinks

Dive into the latest developments in biotech-enabled food innovation:

https://www.betterbioeconomy.com/p/air-grown-food-factory-mosa-meat

https://slaughterfreeamerica.substack.com/p/electric-cars-cultivated-meat-and

Here's what you can find in issue #60 of the Better Bioeconomy weekly newsletter:

BIO BUZZ:

🍼 The Live Green Co. introduced a human breast milk fat analog and a postbiotic using precision fermentation

🇩🇪 Bluu Seafood opened ‘Europe’s first’ cultivated seafood pilot plant in preparation for market entry

🐟 Atlantic Fish Co. developed the ‘world's first’ cultivated black sea bass

😋 Quest Meat’s first team cook-up and tasting of microcarrier replacement shows positive results

🇮🇱 E-Fishient Protein has developed the cell line of Tilapia to advance cultivated fish production

🇹🇭🇮🇱 Aleph Farms's CEO Didier Toubia on why the Israeli cultivated meat leader decided to set up a production facility in Thailand

MACRO STUFF:

🌏 APAC ‘more open-minded’ to novel foods, says Vow’s CEO George Peppou

📊 Insights revealed varying willingness to try cultivated meat among consumers worldwide

🤔 Should you use centrifugation or microfiltration for downstream recovery?

BIO BUCKS:

🇨🇦 🪐 Maia Farms and Ecoation won the grand prize in the Deep Space Food Challenge for a system that produces 700kg of fresh food annually

🧬 Ginkgo Bioworks acquired AgBiome's platform assets

SOCIAL FEAST:

💰 Are food investors climate investors?

🦠 Let’s replace soy-based animal feed with microbial protein

💬 We need to rethink risk communication in novel food to build consumer trust

Dive into the latest developments in biotech-enabled food innovation:

https://www.betterbioeconomy.com/p/fermented-infant-nutrition-cultivated

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Here's what you can find in the 59th issue of the Better Bioeconomy weekly newsletter:

BIO BUZZ:

🇦🇺🇸🇬 Vow received regulatory approval in Singapore for its cultivated quail

🥔 Finally Foods is producing dairy proteins using genetically engineered potatoes

🥢 Chengdu Bowl introduced two Solein-based dishes from Sichuan cuisine to add “protein from thin air” to menus

🐔 SuperMeat's LCA reveals a 47% emissions reduction in its cultivated chicken versus conventional chicken when using renewable energy

🐟 Avant Meats plans to expand its cultivated seafood manufacturing capacity to 2000 L bioreactors in Singapore

🧫 Ayana Bio's plant cell culture could offer a solution to the supply issues and volatile pricing faced by high-quality botanical sourcing

MACRO STUFF:

🌏 Asia's embrace of cultivated meat will bring industry leadership

🍽️ Why food tech companies should pursue food regulatory approval in multiple jurisdictions at the same time

👨🏽‍🌾👩🏻‍🌾 Opportunities for farmers in alt proteins

BIO BUCKS:

🍳 Onego Bio raised $40M in Series A funding to commercialise its animal-free egg protein

🩸 Ironic Biotech raised €1M pre-seed funding for precision fermentation-based plant-derived proteins to address iron deficiency

🛠 Liberation Labs secured $12.5M in funding to advance its precision fermentation facility

📉 European food tech startups saw investment decrease 35% in 2023 from 2022

SOCIAL FEAST:

🇵🇰 First-ever cultivated meat presentation in Pakistan (probably)

🛡 Fungal yeasts could be a promising option for crop protection and food preservation

Dive into the latest developments in biotech-enabled food innovation:

https://www.betterbioeconomy.com/p/cultivated-quail-approval-40m-for

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Here's what you can find in the 58th issue of the Better Bioeconomy weekly newsletter:

BIO BUZZ:

🇸🇬 ScaleUp Bio announced partnerships with Allozymes and Algrow Biosciences, plus LOIs with Terra Bioindustries and Argento Labs

🐟 Aqua Cultured Foods collaborate with Ginkgo Bioworks to optimise the production of fermentation-derived whole-cut seafood

🥔 PoLoPo’s molecular farming technology uses genetically engineered potatoes to produce egg proteins

🥛 Imagindairy and Ginkgo Bioworks team up to optimise the development of animal-free non-whey dairy proteins

🇳🇱🇸🇬 The Protein Brewery has received approval from the Singapore Food Agency for its mycelium-derived ingredient, Fermotein

MACRO STUFF:

🇮🇳 F&B launches with alt protein in India increased at a CAGR of 11% between 2019–2023 but challenges remain

💡 McKinsey survey shows that the majority of US consumers are open to trying foods with novel ingredients

💬 Aleph Farms’ CEO expresses regret that the cultivated meat industry didn't manage public expectations better from the start

🚀 Despite a significant drop in agrifood tech funding, Vinod Khosla and Dave Friedberg remain optimistic about exceptional founders and tech

📉 Climate change and extreme weather events are projected to drive up food prices

HackSummit:

🚀 Join Europe’s largest ClimateTech gathering. Use the code BetterBioeconomy20 to save 20% on your pass!

BIO BUCKS:

🇬🇧 Clean Food Group received an additional £2.5M to accelerate the commercialisation of sustainable oils and fats

🇩🇪 Innocent Meat secured €3M to develop an automated plug-and-produce solution for cultivated meat

SOCIAL FEAST:

🤩 Novel food tech could scale the production of high-value agricultural products with less exploitation than traditional methods

😐 Food system accounts for 22% of GHG emissions, but solutions only receive 6% of VC funding

🐟 Aqua Cultured Foods collaborates with Ginkgo Bioworks to optimise the production of fermentation-derived whole-cut seafood

Dive into the latest developments in biotech-enabled food innovation:

https://www.betterbioeconomy.com/p/egg-proteins-from-potatoes-indian

I know UConn is or was doing some cultivated meat research, but I’m not sure where they got the money from.

Specifically about what can be done politically to help advance cellular agriculture at the local, state, national and international level.

It would be for an article on my cell-ag blog: https://slaughterfreeamerica.substack.com

I’d likely submit it to some other places, like CounterPunch.

Shoot me an email if you’re interested! My address is JonHoch87@aol.com.

Here's what you can find in the 57th issue of the Better Bioeconomy weekly newsletter:

BIO TALKS:

🌎 My Q&A with Synonym's co-founder, Joshua Lachter: Financing and developing infrastructure for the bioeconomy

BIO BUZZ:

🇳🇱 Meatable cuts cultivated meat production time to just 4 days, making it the fastest in the sector

🧀 Formo and Those Vegan Cowboys partner to introduce precision-fermented cheese to the EU market

🍯 MeliBio partnered with Pow.Bio to scale up the production of its bee-free honey using precision fermentation

🍼 Triplebar Bio teamed up with FrieslandCampina Ingredients to cost-effectively scale up precision-fermented lactoferrin

🛠 GEA introduced a perfusion platform to improve productivity and cost efficiency in cell cultivation and precision fermentation

...and more

MACRO STUFF:

🤷🏾‍♂️ Experts criticise the FAO's roadmap for dismissing alt proteins and neglecting the impact of meat and dairy consumption

🇬🇧 UK Food Standards Agency to reform regulations for products like precision fermentation-derived ingredients and cultivated meat

🇩🇪🇦🇹 More than 60% of Germans and Austrians support consumer choice for cultivated meat

FOODTECH WC:

🏆 Enter the FoodTech World Cup hosted by Givaudan and FoodHack!

BIO BUCKS:

🇦🇺 Cauldron raised AUD 9.5M in Series A funding to scale up precision fermentation manufacturing platform

🇳🇿 ANDFOODS raised $2.7M in seed funding to advance its fermentation-enabled legume-based dairy alternatives

🇪🇸 Poseidona secured €1.1M in pre-seed funding to advance the development of sustainable algal protein ingredients

SOCIAL FEAST:

🤩 New cultivated meat startups have a huge advantage over those that began 5 years ago

😐 We cannot let the future of food become a political instrument

🤔 Why is food so hard to change?

Dive into the latest developments in biotech-enabled food innovation:

https://www.betterbioeconomy.com/p/cultivated-meat-in-4-days-precision

Here's what you can find in the 56th issue of the Better Bioeconomy weekly newsletter:

BIO TALKS:

🌎 My conversation with Bioshyft's founder, Gerrit Feuerriegel: Connecting innovators, investors, and incumbents to drive the bioeconomy

BIO BUZZ:

🐟 Koralo scaled its co-fermentation biomass process to 5,000 L in South Korea to increase production of its mycelium-based fish fillet

🇩🇰 Swan Neck Bio, a spin-off from White Labs, launched patented FlexCell tech for rapid and affordable fermentation scaling

🇨🇳🇬🇧 BSF Enterprise partnered with Ivy Farm Technologies to support fundraising, launch, and scale cultivated meat production in China

🇮🇳 Biokraft Foods partnered with ICAR-Directorate of Coldwater Fisheries Research to produce cultivated snow and rainbow trout

🐙 Revo Foods launched the world’s first vegan octopus for retail using 3D-printing technology and fungi-based mycoprotein

...And more

MACRO STUFF:

😋 Study shows that people who have tried cultivated meat will eat it again

BIO BUCKS:

🇸🇬 Umami Bioworks and Shiok Meats plans to merge

📉 Agrifood tech startup investment dropped nearly 50% from 2022-2023, marking the lowest point in six years

💸 Bezos Earth Fund commits $60M to the Bezos Centers for Sustainable Protein as part of its $1B commitment to food transformation

🧬 Tierra Biosciences raised $11.4M in Series A funding for AI-guided cell-free technology for high-throughput custom protein synthesis

🥩 Orbillion Bio raised additional funding to scale up cultivated beef production and develop its biotech platform

SOCIAL FEAST:

💡 A little cheat sheet for founders to improve pitch decks

🤔 Should you develop a product or build a platform?

😂 For the lolz

Dive into the latest developments in biotech-enabled food innovation:

https://www.betterbioeconomy.com/p/major-cultivated-seafood-merger-60m

Here's what you can find in the 55th issue of the Better Bioeconomy weekly newsletter:

BIO BUZZ:

🍔 Kynda partners with The Raging Pig Co. to launch zero-waste, affordable, biomass-fermented mycelium meat burgers

🇦🇺🇺🇸 Cauldron Ferm received approval for its hyper-fermentation technology in Australia, marking a "first-of-its-kind" license

💪🏾 Swapping animal-based protein for Quorn’s mycoprotein lowers cholesterol in overweight adults

🇩🇰 Scientists in Denmark have formulated novel protein and meat-like fibres from blue-green algae

MACRO STUFF:

🇰🇷 Disney+ will release a new Korean thriller series titled ‘Blood Free’, focusing on cultivated meat and its implications

🇧🇷 Key factors transforming Brazil’s alt protein market in 2024

♻️ Are circular alt protein biorefineries the pinnacle of the bioeconomy?

BIO BUCKS:

🇺🇸 $680M to advance Illinois’ biomanufacturing and precision fermentation capabilities

🇦🇪 Novel Foods Group to invest $500M to build biotech production hub in UAE to produce sweet proteins via precision fermentation

🇬🇧 UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) invested £12M in a Microbial Food Hub to develop sustainable foods through fermentation

🇨🇭 Cultivated Biosciences secured $5M to scale up the development of its yeast-derived fermented cream

🇩🇪 ProteinDistillery raised over €15M in seed funding to support its expansion and the launch of “Europe’s first” protein-competence centre

💰 And more bucks

SOCIAL FEAST:

🤦🏻‍♀️ Why Tennessee’s proposed cultivated meat ban is a terrible idea

🤔 Could framing animals as inefficient technology persuade people outside the food tech bubble

😂 For the lolz: Cultivated meat brand or metal band?

Learn more about the developments in biotech-enabled food innovation:

https://www.betterbioeconomy.com/p/big-biotech-infrastructure-funding

Here are the latest developments in biotech-enabled food innovation from last week:

BIO BUZZ:

🐟 BlueNalu is the first cultivated seafood company to join the National Fisheries Institute (NFI)

🇩🇪🇰🇷 Infinite Roots partners with Pulmuone to develop innovative protein products catered to the South Korean market

🇳🇿New Zealand's ‘first’ company to develop non-GM cell lines for the cultivated meat industry has launched a range of porcine cells

💬 Cargill’s CTO on the alt protein “trifecta” and how the global food giant is helping overcome them

🇬🇧 Zya developed an enzyme that can convert sugar into fibre inside the digestive system

MACRO STUFF:

🇨🇳 Chinese alt protein sector could see a “pivotal chapter” in 2024

💡 New report by Synonym and BCG shows that biomanufacturing capacity has to 20x to reach industry growth of $200B by 2040

BIO BUCKS:

🇦🇺 $3.9M project to upgrade QUT Pilot Plant to boost Australia's novel food ingredient production through precision fermentation

🇪🇸 Government of Catalonia invests €12M in open-access, pre-industrial facility for alternative protein ingredients and food development

🇨🇭 Food Brewer raised over CHF 5M in seed funding for cell-cultured cacao and coffee

🇬🇧 Innovate UK awarded £500k in grant funding to support cultivated meat project in the North East

💰 Better Bite Ventures opened applications for the latest funding round, offering early-stage investments to food tech startups in APAC

BIO TALKS:

♻️ My conversation with Terra Bioindustries’ CMO, Rebecca Palmer

SOCIAL FEAST:

💸 Exhaust all alternatives like grants, loans, and network support before diluting your equity for VC funding | James Ryall

🤔 Want to make synbio mainstream? Make something people want, not just "sexy" | Sofia Sanchez

FUTURE FOOD FERMENTAT10N: FEBRUARY

🤩 10 notable developments in fermentation-based food innovation

Check out this week's issue of Better Bioeconomy:

https://www.betterbioeconomy.com/p/major-cultivated-seafood-milestone

Here are the latest developments in biotech-enabled food innovation from last week:

BIO BUZZ:

🐟 BlueNalu is the first cultivated seafood company to join the National Fisheries Institute (NFI)

🇩🇪🇰🇷 Infinite Roots partners with Pulmuone to develop innovative protein products catered to the South Korean market

🇳🇿New Zealand's ‘first’ company to develop non-GM cell lines for the cultivated meat industry has launched a range of porcine cells

💬 Cargill’s CTO on the alt protein “trifecta” and how the global food giant is helping overcome them

🇬🇧 Zya developed an enzyme that can convert sugar into fibre inside the digestive system

MACRO STUFF:

🇨🇳 Chinese alt protein sector could see a “pivotal chapter” in 2024

💡 New report by Synonym and BCG shows that biomanufacturing capacity has to 20x to reach industry growth of $200B by 2040

BIO BUCKS:

🇦🇺 $3.9M project to upgrade QUT Pilot Plant to boost Australia's novel food ingredient production through precision fermentation

🇪🇸 Government of Catalonia invests €12M in open-access, pre-industrial facility for alternative protein ingredients and food development

🇨🇭 Food Brewer raised over CHF 5M in seed funding for cell-cultured cacao and coffee

🇬🇧 Innovate UK awarded £500k in grant funding to support cultivated meat project in the North East

💰 Better Bite Ventures opened applications for the latest funding round, offering early-stage investments to food tech startups in APAC

BIO TALKS:

♻️ My conversation with Terra Bioindustries’ CMO, Rebecca Palmer

SOCIAL FEAST:

💸 Exhaust all alternatives like grants, loans, and network support before diluting your equity for VC funding | James Ryall

🤔 Want to make synbio mainstream? Make something people want, not just "sexy" | Sofia Sanchez

FUTURE FOOD FERMENTAT10N: FEBRUARY

🤩 10 notable developments in fermentation-based food innovation

Check out this week's issue of Better Bioeconomy:

https://www.betterbioeconomy.com/p/major-cultivated-seafood-milestone

Hi all! I am a recent college grad (molecular biology major) and I am thinking about trying to work in the cultivated meat industry. I would love to hear what it is like from people who already work in the industry. I have listened to quite a few podcasts and read interviews in which people discuss their roles and experience, but only from people working in non-profits or academia. If you work in R&D in the industry I would really appreciate hearing what your job is like on a day-to-day basis, what your educational background is, if you would recommend trying to work in the industry, etc. Thanks so much!

March 12th: A deep dive understanding into the cost drivers of cultivated meat production: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/9417055011813/WN_5xnacQlASXChi8RNQ7zh0g#/registration

March 20th: Scale up and bioprocessing trends in the cultivated meat industry:

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/7116909970995/WN_seYayQx_SSytVVUqvoRjRQ#/registration

i just released a completely free tool to do bioreactor simulations. Yesterday I added stem cells to the dropdown list, so this gives the user a rudimentary option to model stem cell growth in a batch bioreactor system. hope you enjoy

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let me know what you like/dislike

Here are the developments in biotech-enabled food innovation last week:

BIO TALKS:

♻️ My conversation with Rebecca Palmer: Turning agrifood byproducts into nutrient-rich B2B ingredients

BIO BUZZ:

🇮🇱🇹🇭 Aleph Farms partnered with BBGI and Fermbox Bio to set up Thailand’s first cultivated meat production facility

🍦 Unilever partnered with Perfect Day to introduce an ‘animal-free dairy’ frozen dessert under the Breyers brand

🥛 Vivici says it’s ready to supply commercial levels of fermentation-based whey protein to the US market

MACRO STUFF:

🚫 Alabama's Senate passed a bill which bans the sale, manufacture, and distribution of cultivated meat

🇰🇷 South Korea has opened up the regulatory approval process for cultivated meat

📝 FDA has issued guidance for the industry on voluntary engagement with the agency before marketing food from genome-edited plants

BIO BUCKS:

🇳🇿 Miruku raised $5M in a pre-Series A round to expand its molecular farming platform for producing dairy proteins and fats

☕️ Prefer raised $2M to scale up production and Asia expansion for its fermentation-derived beanless coffee

🍄 70/30 Food Tech raised $700,000 in a seed extension round to open a Mycelium Research Lab for developing mycelium-based protein products

💰 Bluestein Ventures closed a $45M food tech fund

SOCIAL FEAST:

🤔 What if cultivated meat companies added flavour profiles of their cells similar to the flavour profiles of coffee beans?

🏭 "Asset-light" is what's hot right now

😮‍💨 Outdated regulatory framework makes life much harder for alt protein companies

Check out this week's edition:

https://www.betterbioeconomy.com/p/cpg-giants-embrace-animal-free-dairy?utm_source=activity_item